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  Losing My Marbles
  by RLHall

  All artwork is © Rhonda L. Hall, All Rights Reserved. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify this image without my express consent.

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  Friends are like roses
  by Virginia N. Fred

  Cassius Blue and the Bee photo made into a friendship card for the Brilliant Butterfly Cards challenge in Cards for Everyday group Attributes of Leptotes cassius / Family: Gossamer-wing Butterflies (Lycaenidae) / Subfamily: Blues (Polyommatinae) / Identification: Upperside of males pale blue; females with white patches. Underside tan with broken pale lines; forewing inner margin has “blank” areas with no spots. / Life history: Eggs are laid singly on flower buds of the host plant; caterpillars eat flowers and seedpods. Predation and parasitism may be discouraged by ants, which tend the caterpillars and feed on their sugary secretions. Flight: All through the year in southern Florida and South Texas. Number of broods has not been determined. / Wing span: 3/4 – 1 3/8 inches (2 – 3.5 cm). / Caterpillar hosts: Ornamental leadwort (Plumbago capensis), rattlebox (Crotalaria incana), hairy milk pea (Galactia volubilis), and lima bean (Phaseolus limensis). / Adult food: Nectar from shepherd\’s needle, lippia, and many other flowers. / Habitat: Subtropical thorn scrub, forest edges, weedy fields, residential areas. / Range: Florida and the Keys; Texas south through the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America to South America. Strays to New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, and South Carolina. / Conservation: Not usually required. / NatureServe Global Status: G5 – Demonstrably secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery. / Management needs: None reported. / Information from: http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/ Honeybee range Fast Facts / Type: Bug / Diet: Herbivore / Average lifespan in the wild: Up to 5 years / Size: 0.4 to 0.6 in (5 to 15 mm) (Workers) / Honeybee hives have long provided humans with honey and beeswax. Such commercial uses have spawned a large beekeeping industry, though many species still occur in the wild. All honeybees are social and cooperative insects. A hive’s inhabitants are generally divided into three types. / Workers are the only bees that most people ever see. These bees are females that are not sexually developed. Workers forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean, circulate air by beating their wings, and perform many other societal functions. The queen’s job is simple—laying the eggs that will spawn the hive’s next generation of bees. There is usually only a single queen in a hive. If the queen dies, workers will create a new queen by feeding one of the worker females a special diet of a food called “royal jelly.” This elixir enables the worker to develop into a fertile queen. Queens also regulate the hive’s activities by producing chemicals that guide the behavior of the other bees. Male bees are called drones—the third class of honeybee. Several hundred drones live in each hive during the spring and summer, but they are expelled for the winter months when the hive goes into a lean survival mode. Bees live on stored honey and pollen all winter, and cluster into a ball to conserve warmth. Larvae are fed from the stores during this season and, by spring, the hive is swarming with a new generation of bees. / Information from: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/honeybee.html / /